![]() ![]() ![]() 8 Over his head there was suspended a huge rock ever threatening to crush him.Īnother tradition relates that he, wanting to try the gods, cut his son Pelops in pieces, boiled them and set them before the gods at a repast. Branches laden with fruit, moreover, hung over his head, but when he stretched out his hand to reach the fruit, the branches withdrew. Tantalus divulged the secrets intrusted to him, and the gods punished him by placing him in the nether world in the midst of a lake, but rendering it impossible for him to drink when he was thirsty, the water always withdrawing when he stooped. ![]() The common account is that Zeus invited him to his table and communicated his divine counsels to him. Tantalus is particularly celebrated in ancient story for the severe punishment inflicted upon him after his death in the lower world, the causes of which are differently stated by the ancient authors. 6 All traditions agree in stating that he was a wealthy king, but while some call him king of Lydia, of Sipylus in Phrygia or Paphlagonia, others describe him as king of Argos or Corinth. 2 His wife is called by some Euryanassa, 3 by others Taygete or Dione, 4 and by others Clytia or Eupryto 5 He was the father of Pelops, Broteas, and Niobe. A son of Zeus by Pluto, or according to others 1 a son of Tmolus. ![]()
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